Vista will need to be installed on another partition say D:. So will the loader load SLIC 2.1 in memory both for the purpose of the install as well as actually booting into the installed vista? And how and where would the vista cert and key be installed?

Doesn't really matter as long as a loader (if that's what you are using) handles the boot process.

As has already been said you need to install the cert and a Vista key - not a 7 key - in Vista - the commands to do this manually are the same and listed on these forums.

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am not too knowledgable about loaders. does that mean that a loader installed on C: drive for win7 will be able to handle the SLIC loading for vista on another partition? Or will another copy of the loader need to be installed on D:?

Yes if the boot loader is loading the SLIC info then loading the operating system, it should work with either. Machine is using grub or some other boot loader to load SLIC then transfer to operating system boot loader.

All the boot stuff is on the active partition and the loader will install there to, so it doesn't matter which OS you load, the slic will always be placed. But make shure that you install the loader after the last installed os, otherwise the bootloader of the os overwrites the loader.

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